Chapter Summaries

Wang Xuan survived two brutal battles in the first trial, including a sudden attack by a powerful swordsman from the Land of Deities, but the Book of Years vanished before he could learn more about it. Still wounded, he entered the second, life-or-death round as the participants were transported to the Extinguished Great Barriers.

• Wang Xuan recovered from his duel with the peerless sword immortal and asked the Book of Years to remove the lingering emotions and memories from Zhao Qinghan.
• The Book of Years opened a new page, and a tall swordsman from the Land of Deities emerged to fight Wang Xuan until the first trial's time limit ended.
• The Book of Years recalled the swordsman into its pages, restored Zhao Qinghan's memories, and disappeared after Wang Xuan called it a demonic book.
• The steel fortress awarded Wang Xuan two protective talismans and announced a second trial in which half the participants would be eliminated.
• Wang Xuan told Zhao Qinghan, Wu Yin, Qing Mu, Horse Chao Fan, and the Little Fox Immortal not to participate, but he entered the trial and was transported to an Extinguished Great Barrier with them.

Wang Xuan entered Number Four Extinguished Great Barrier and faced a horde of ancient monsters before discovering that twelve Limit Breakers had gathered to hunt him. As they closed in on Zhao Qinghan, Wu Yin, Qing Mu, and the others to constrain him, Wang Xuan prepared to face the encirclement.

• Wang Xuan and his companions entered the desolate battlefield, where they found the fossilized remains of powerful ancient creatures.
• Wang Xuan charged into the monsters summoned by a hidden dead spirit wielder, destroying many before turning back to protect Zhao Qinghan, Wu Yin, and Qing Mu.
• Wang Xuan discovered that five approaching attackers were Limit Breakers, and then six more appeared nearby, bringing the total hunting him to twelve.
• Horse Chao Fan shouted that he surrendered, but the Limit Breakers exploited the rules by threatening Wang Xuan's companions without formally starting a battle.
• Spectators learned that more than ten Limit Breakers had gathered in Number Four Extinguished Great Barrier to hunt Wang Xuan, while the group faced them on the battlefield.

Wang Xuan faced a group of limit-breakers who had joined forces to eliminate him so they could compete for scarce places to survive the coming Mythological Winter. After they let Zhao Qinghan, Qing Mu, and the others withdraw, Wang Xuan fought the remaining challengers, while spectators wondered whether they could force him onto a different path.

• Horse Chao Fan tried to exploit the battle rules by asking Little Fox Immortal to slap it, but the limit-breakers did not accept its concession.
• The limit-breakers explained that they sought to eliminate Wang Xuan because only a few places in a Stone House of Real Substance might let their generation endure Eternal Night.
• The gray-haired young man, Yuan Lin, and the Vermilion Bird withdrew, and Zhao Qinghan, Qing Mu, Wu Yin, and the others conceded and left the Extinguished Great Barrier.
• Wang Xuan thanked the limit-breakers who had kept their bottom line, then agreed to spar with those who still wanted to fight.
• Wang Xuan defeated the Vermilion Bird and a young man from the Sun Elf Royal Family, then fought several limit-breakers at once.
• Spectators in a steel fortress praised Wang Xuan's strength and discussed whether they could force him onto a different path, though they worried it was already too late.

Wang Xuan defeated eleven Ten Stages limit-breakers in the second trial, earned six Good Fortune True Crystals, and entered the third trial in the Land of the Departed. There, he encountered the Book of Years again and agreed to follow it somewhere secluded, intending to confront it over its attempts to influence him.

• Wang Xuan fought through Wu Hai and the other limit-breakers, defeating all eleven without killing them.
• The observers marveled at Wang Xuan’s victory, while Horse Chao Fan joked that finding someone to defeat him seemed impossible.
• Wang Xuan received six Good Fortune True Crystals and distributed them among Qing Mu, Zhao Qinghan, Wu Yin, and the others, including the Mechanical Little Bear.
• The third trial began in the Land of the Departed, where Wang Xuan cut through its spirit creatures and found the Book of Years again.
• The Book of Years offered to give Wang Xuan stronger opponents and urged him to abandon attachments; Wang Xuan agreed to follow it to a secluded place, planning to confront it.

Wang Xuan learned from the Book of Years how several Supreme Treasures had seeded supernatural civilizations across the Four Great Domains, then discovered it was manipulating Wu Yin to test his resolve. As a battle over a Semi-Mature Supreme Treasure erupted outside, Wang Xuan turned on the Book of Years instead of fighting the Blade Demon.

• Wang Xuan followed the Book of Years into a sealed Underground Palace, where they discussed the origins of supernatural civilizations and the Supreme Treasures that had shaped them.
• The Book of Years admitted it was formed from two Old Covenant Carriers and summoned the Blade Demon, urging Wang Xuan to sever his mortal attachments.
• The Book of Years revealed Wu Yin's spiritual light and forced her into the role of the Blade Demon's slain confidante, angering Wang Xuan.
• A great battle broke out within a Great Barrier as powerhouses converged to seize the Semi-Mature Supreme Treasure, while the Immortal Umbrella and Divine Palace stirred in the Immortal Land.
• Wang Xuan ignored the Blade Demon and struck at the Book of Years with the God Slaying Banner.

Wang Xuan tricked the Book of Years into letting Wu Yin go, then used the Nurturing Life Furnace lid to break the carrier apart and collect its pages. After recovering in the Land of Nothingness, he returned as the great battle began and entered a Great Barrier, where Qing Mu mistook another short-haired man for him.

• Wang Xuan agreed to follow the Book of Years’ road of correction if it sent Wu Yin’s spiritual light back to the spacecraft, and the Book of Years did so.
• Wang Xuan struck the Book of Years with the Nurturing Life Furnace lid, scattered its pages, and gathered them with the Iron Stake and God Slaying Banner.
• Wang Xuan distributed many pages among his clones, sealed the remaining pages with the Great Law of Mental Illness, and healed in the Land of Nothingness before returning to his peak.
• Wang Xuan considered leaving after taking the Old Covenant Carrier, but stayed when the six-palace great battle was announced and entered a decayed Great Barrier.
• Qing Mu spotted a short-haired man on the battlefield and mistook him for Wang Xuan, criticizing the man’s appearance and bearing.

Wang Xuan sat apart from the palace challenges, determined to pursue the twelfth stage as mythology neared its end. As Chen Yongjie found Xu Fu among the Nurturing Life Palace’s guardians, a vast upheaval struck the supernatural world, and Wang Xuan learned the grand gathering was itself being used as prey and sacrifice.

• Wang Xuan withdrew from the palace battles and meditated on his scriptures, resolving to seek the twelfth stage despite the approaching end of mythology.
• Contestants learned that incarnations of Supreme Deities guarded the six palaces, while previous-round champions also served as guardians.
• Chen Yongjie reached the Nurturing Life Palace’s core, recognized Xu Fu, and was drawn to the palace lord’s side to cultivate.
• On the twenty-first day, Rule Aftermath shook the real world and the Great Barrier, causing Supernatural Practitioners to lose their realms and disturbing Wang Xuan’s cultivation.
• Wang Xuan heard that Immortal Land, Land of Deities, and Supreme Experts had launched an assault on the Immortal Realm to seize the World-Crossing Sword, Carefree Boat, and Ascension Banner.

Wang Xuan considered how to strengthen himself enough to subdue his spiritual avatars while repeated tremors shook the Supernatural World. As rival factions’ schemes and losses came to light, the gathering grew more chaotic, and a Supreme Expert began refining an Imperial Dao Level treasure.

• Qing Mu, Horse Chao Fan, Little Fox Immortal, Zhao Qinghan, and Wu Yin were shaken down in cultivation, while Wang Xuan remained unaffected and pondered how to suppress his spiritual avatars.
• Wang Xuan considered using his Inner Scenery Realm to enhance his spiritual thoughts and perceptions outside it, hoping to gain enough strength to enter the Twelve Stage Domain.
• News spread that the Ascension Banner had been obtained jointly by Supreme Experts from the Immortal Land and the Land of Deities, but a terrifying creature wielding the already-owned World-Crossing Sword attacked them and killed some Supreme Experts.
• Rumors revealed that Supreme Experts from multiple factions had exchanged information and switched battlefields to target ancient-era experts, leaving Wang Xuan and others unsure who was hunting whom.
• Another tremor shook the Great Barrier, and observers reported that a woman from the Land of Immortal Dao was refining a supreme treasure that was an Imperial Dao Level bracelet.

Fang Yuzhu refined a nearly mature supreme treasure inside the Great Barrier, drawing attacks from Supreme Experts who opposed her use of its power. As the Divine Palace arrived and threatened to overwhelm the defenders, two reinforcements used the current era’s Old Covenant Carrier to block it.

• Several Supreme Experts attacked Fang Yuzhu to stop her from refining a treasure, but she broke a spear and destroyed a Supreme Deity’s sword with an Immortal Dao Flower Bud.
• The Demon Lord, Zhang Daoling, and the Nether Blood Sect Ancestor joined Fang Yuzhu, while she explained that she used an Old Covenant Carrier from a vanished civilization and part of the Great Barrier’s power.
• The Divine Palace broke into the Great Barrier and attacked the gathered experts as the Daoist school and Buddhist families joined the fight.
• Fang Yuzhu’s group struggled against the Divine Palace, whose master had survived from a vanished Supernatural Civilization.
• Two figures arrived holding the current era’s Old Covenant Carrier and used it to block the Divine Palace’s attack.

As the Great Barrier shook and supernatural powers collapsed, Wang Xuan studied the Inner Scenery Realm to develop a way to defeat his powerful incarnations. He discovered that his family’s seemingly ordinary bracelet was becoming a supreme treasure, then entered the Ascension Palace to confront a Supreme Deity and demand its Semi-Mature Supreme Treasure.

• The Great Barrier’s turmoil weakened supernatural practitioners, while Wang Xuan remained steady and searched his scriptures for a way to break through the established Mythological Theory.
• Wang Xuan opened the Inner Scenery Realm himself and used “Steal Time” to explore Super-Sense and Divine Sense, briefly carrying the resulting Super-God State into the outside world.
• The six Supreme Deities searched for the missing Book of Years, and Chen Yongjie realized that Ancestor Wang was nearby and was the rumored limit-breaking assassin.
• Wang Xuan saw the Great Barrier forge a supreme treasure from his family’s black bracelet and recognized Fang Yuzhu’s projected figure within it.
• Sensing an incarnation of a Supreme Deity targeting him, Wang Xuan gathered his incarnations and confronted the enemy, demanding a Semi-Mature Supreme Treasure.
• Wang Xuan entered the Ascension Palace to face the Supreme Deity.

Wang Xuan stormed the Ascension Palace to test his strength against its silver-haired supreme deity, unleashing his powerful spiritual avatars in a fierce battle. The deity was wounded but fought back, and Wang Xuan and his avatars were still attacking him when the chapter ended.

• Wang Xuan entered the Ascension Palace, killed the deity's maid and several followers, and demanded to know what god the silver-haired man was.
• The silver-haired deity attacked Wang Xuan with heavenly lightning, and Wang Xuan countered with a golden dharma body before summoning his spiritual avatars.
• Wang Xuan's avatars took the forms of famous cultivators, startling observers as they joined him in tearing down the palace and striking the deity.
• The silver-haired deity unleashed his maple-forest Dao Fire, but Wang Xuan and his avatars met it with their own flames and continued their assault.
• The avatars used techniques including the Demon Lord's lightning, Fang Yuzhu's Ascension Secret Technique, and Zhang Daoling's reflective mirrors to injure and counter the deity.
• The silver-haired deity unleashed his Deity's Three Slashes, then surged with silver light as Wang Xuan and his avatars rushed forward to attack together.

Wang Xuan and his spiritual avatars fought the silver-haired Supreme Deity, who revealed himself as the Light God, and finally overwhelmed him. The Light God’s Primordial Spirit was fading as Wang Xuan and the others invaded his body to make it their battlefield.

• The Light God rewound the force of Deity's Three Slashes, injuring Wang Xuan and the avatars, but the Demon Lord and others retaliated.
• The mysterious avatar reborn from Zheng Yuantian's ashes used Immortal Fetus Parasitism on the Light God while the other avatars attacked him.
• Wang Xuan sensed a cocoon of light within the Light God and struck it with the Dao Slaying Sword, revealing the Light God’s true form as Light Peng, a Twelve-Winged Celestial God.
• Wang Xuan, Fang Yuzhu, and the avatars battled Light Peng, who unleashed burning feathers in a near-mutual-destruction attack before trying to flee.
• The Nether Blood Sect Ancestor and the mysterious avatar restrained Light Peng, and Wang Xuan persuaded the avatars to invade his body and fight over his Primordial Spirit there.
• Wang Xuan and the avatars weakened Light Peng until his Primordial Spirit’s fire began to die, while witnesses declared that Wang Xuan had slain a god.

After the Light God died, Wang Xuan and his spirit clones fought inside the god’s body, then turned on one another as they competed to absorb each other’s power. Cornered by four powerful clones, Wang Xuan entered his physical body and Inner Scenery Realm, gained a brief state Above Divine Sense, and defeated them; he prepared to fuse the clones and pursue the twelfth stage.

• The Light God’s corpse was torn apart as the spirit bodies battled inside him, and Wang Xuan’s attempt to divide them into factions ended with the clones deciding to target him first.
• Wang Xuan killed the mysterious spirit reborn from Zheng Yuantian’s ashes and absorbed its power, while the other clones grew stronger by defeating their own opponents.
• Fang Yuzhu, Zhang Daoling, Demon Lord Yanyan, and Nether Blood turned on Wang Xuan, who refused to use the God Slaying Banner and furnace lid against them.
• After Nether Blood wounded him, Wang Xuan fled into his physical body, activated the Inner Scenery Realm, and reached a brief state Above Divine Sense.
• Wang Xuan killed and absorbed Nether Blood, Demon Lord Yanyan, Zhang Daoling, and Fang Yuzhu, then prepared to fuse his spirit clones and advance to the twelfth stage.

Wang Xuan retreated underground to break through after killing the Light God, while Xu Fu blocked two palace masters from attacking him. In the Land of Nothingness, Wang Xuan successfully entered the unprecedented Twelfth Stage just as immortals and deities began probing the formation around him.

• The remaining palace factions grew wary of Wang Xuan after he killed the Light God and discussed killing him to reclaim the Book of Years.
• Xu Fu arrived with Chen Yongjie and blocked Lei Tuo and Yuan Lei, allowing Wang Xuan to retreat underground and recover.
• Wang Xuan and Chen Yongjie entered an Underground Palace, where Wang Xuan prepared a formation and used the Inner Scenery Realm to fuse his spiritual incarnations.
• Chen Yongjie returned to the Ninth Stage limit, while Wang Xuan healed but decided he needed Red Substance to complete his breakthrough.
• Wang Xuan entered the Land of Nothingness and broke through into the Twelfth Stage as immortals and deities approached his underground formation.

Wang Xuan endured a heavenly tribulation in the Land of Nothingness after reaching the unprecedented Twelve Stage Domain, while its upheaval caused supernatural beings across the world to lose power. Reborn through the lightning, he prepared to return and confront the Supreme Deities and immortals plotting against him.

• Wang Xuan recovered in the silver immortal pool, realized his incarnations’ powers had fused within him, and sensed that danger was approaching.
• A scarlet attack struck Wang Xuan in the Land of Nothingness, triggering violent tremors among supreme treasures and supernatural beings throughout the world.
• Wang Xuan recognized the scarlet assault as heavenly tribulation and fought back with his spiritual techniques and Dao Slaying Sword as cultivators including Chen Yongjie, Lei Tuo, Yuan Lei, Xu Fu, Qing Mu, and Wu Yin suffered the upheaval.
• Wang Xuan survived the lightning, transformed through destruction, and realized that his Twelve Stage Domain was now complete.
• Wang Xuan took up the God Slaying Banner and furnace lid and set out to return, vowing to defeat those plotting against him.

Wang Xuan survived the Twelfth Stage tribulation and reached Rebirth, then disguised himself as a gravely injured failure to keep the watching gods and immortals from seeing his strength. As he prepared to leave the Supernatural Realm, Lei Tuo and Yuan Lei demanded that he hand over the Book of Years.

• Wang Xuan returned from the Land of Nothingness, healed his scorched body with a heavenly medicine, and named his new Twelfth Stage realm Rebirth.
• Chen Yongjie fell back to the Eighth Stage, while Supernatural Practitioners across the world and even supreme beings suffered further losses of power.
• Wang Xuan endured five lightning strikes in the real world, then covered himself in blood and charred skin and feigned a failed tribulation.
• Wang Xuan emerged from seclusion and convinced Xu Fu and the gathered observers that his cultivation and Dao foundation had been badly damaged.
• Wang Xuan said he planned to return to an ordinary life and walked toward the Ferryman as Wu Yin, Qing Mu, Zhao Qinghan, and others grieved.
• Lei Tuo and Yuan Lei demanded that Wang Xuan leave behind the Book of Years.

Wang Xuan refused to surrender the Book of Years and fought Immortal Lei Tuo after the palace masters tried to search his Land of Fate. He killed Lei Tuo, then cleaved Supreme Deity Yuan Lei in two when she attacked him.

• Lei Tuo and Yuan Lei demanded the Book of Years, and Lei Tuo insisted on searching Wang Xuan's Land of Fate despite Wang Xuan denying he had the book.
• Great Daoist Master Xu Fu stood between Wang Xuan and the palace masters, but Wang Xuan stepped forward to face Lei Tuo himself.
• Wang Xuan fought Lei Tuo with the Primordial Spirit Chain, pierced him, and shattered his body and Primordial Spirit.
• After Lei Tuo's death, Wang Xuan refused Xu Fu's protection and challenged Yuan Lei, who attacked after trying to draw out his strongest strike.
• Wang Xuan unleashed his combined techniques and cleaved Yuan Lei into two halves.

Wang Xuan killed Yuan Lei and the gray-haired deity while pretending to be badly wounded, as Xu Fu fought the other deities and hunted the hidden archer. Meanwhile, Chen Yongjie reunited with his long-lost master, and Fang Yuzhu completed the Sky-Veiling Bracelet as the Great Barrier’s conflict intensified.

• Wang Xuan killed Yuan Lei, then subdued a Great Barrier follower and used her as a stool while claiming he was too injured to fight.
• Wang Xuan urged Xu Fu to take on the gray-haired deity, and Xu Fu fought him and the silver-haired immortal from the Human World Palace.
• Chen Yongjie recognized Liu Huaian as his long-lost master, and Liu Huaian told him that the other Old Arts experts had died.
• Wang Xuan sensed a hidden archer targeting him and Xu Fu, then struck down the gray-haired deity while Xu Fu evaded the arrow and killed the silver-haired immortal.
• Xu Fu pursued the archer as Wang Xuan asked the organizers to let him withdraw, then watched the Great Barrier as Fang Yuzhu named the newly forged treasure the Sky-Veiling Bracelet.

Fang Yuzhu completed the Sky-Veiling Bracelet and used it in the Great Barrier’s final battle, while Wang Xuan claimed first place in the battlefield rankings and obtained the Time-Space Mace. As the supernatural era neared its end, Wang Xuan sensed an approaching evil dragon, and gods began entering the Real World.

• Fang Yuzhu and the two shadows refined the Sky-Veiling Bracelet into a supreme treasure, and Fang Yuzhu wielded it against the Divine Palace and Immortal Umbrella.
• Fang Yuzhu honored her agreement to target the Divine Palace as the Great Barrier erupted into a battle among immortals, gods, and supreme treasures.
• Cultivators predicted that the supernatural would fall silent in about three months, and the steel fortress ranked Wang Xuan first after he killed four Supreme Experts.
• Wang Xuan declined the Book of Years and sought medicine for his injuries, then publicly challenged the organizers before claiming the Time-Space Mace and leaving with Chen Yongjie and Liu Huaian.
• Xu Fu caught up with the Hunting God and killed him, while Wang Xuan sensed an evil dragon approaching from afar.
• The Great Barrier split open during the clash of supreme treasures, and gods entered the Real World and outer space.

Gods and immortals poured into the Real World, and Wang Xuan pretended to retire by giving Xu Fu the Time-Space Mace. As Wang Xuan and his companions settled in to watch the battle, Fang Yuzhu was wounded in the Great Barrier, and her allies vowed to seize the Immortal Umbrella.

• Gods and immortals crossed into the Real World, and a supreme expert attacked Xu Fu before a beam from the Great Barrier killed the pursuer.
• Wang Xuan gave Xu Fu the Time-Space Mace and declared that he was withdrawing from the Supernatural Realm.
• An organizer told Wang Xuan and Xu Fu that the Time-Space Mace and Streamer Lamp could not become true supreme treasures and might be reclaimed by their owners.
• Wang Xuan sensed a god and a supreme expert's incarnation approaching, while Xu Fu went to investigate and Wang Xuan returned to the spaceship with Chen Yongjie and Liu Huaian.
• The Evil Dragon plotted to seize a supreme treasure, while Fang Yuzhu was wounded during the battle over the Divine Palace.
• Two allies of Fang Yuzhu charged the owner of the Immortal Umbrella and called on her to help them seize it.